This just in: Nightmares set to suck in 2009!

Nightmares has announced next year's theme and I gotta say it's right up my alley: vampires!:
Next year Nightmare is doing something a little different - an entire house dedicated to vampires. But this ain’t all about Dracula or Count Chocula. We want you to tell us your 5 favorite vampires of all time. You can apply it to even the loosest definition of the word. If enough people write it in, or we find it clever enough, you can be sure there will be a room about it in next year’s haunted house!

I wonder if the vampire theme has anything at all to do with what can only be described as the best guilty pleasure to come along on cable tv in a while (thank you yet again Alan Ball) True Blood? Which sadly ends this week, (and uh-oh Sookie has un-invited Bill!) I have no idea what to do with my Sunday nights now. Or could it possibly be due to the Twilight craze that's swept the nation. Yea, I'm going to see it Friday. Y'know I never understood any of my friend's obession with Harry Potter, and yet now I feel a special kinship to them, for I to have been sucked into a series of juvie lit books that are my literary crack. I was seriously jonzing after I read the last book...sighs...But I digress...Hmmm nightmares has got me thinkin' who are my top vamps of all time?

Barnabas Collins(Dark Shadows, duh)
Lestat
Spike and Dru- they just go together
Kurt Barlow (Salem's Lot)
Dracula (I mean c'mon how do you not include the original prince of darkness)
Nosferatu (even more of a no brainer)
Edward Cullen (I know I know I'm such a tween at heart,)
Jean -Claude (from the Laurell K Hamilton series)
Blade
The Lost Boys gang
Selene (from underworld)
Eric and Bill (and that bald vamp w/the tats!) from True Blood

Hmmmm....I think this list feels incomplete, yet I can't think of anyone I'm forgetting. I'll be interested to see what responses other people come up with at the hauntedNYC site, but more interested to see how the vamp house turns out next year.

Local H- Cynic

Just another song I wish I had on my ipod (damn you itunes for foiling me!)
Local H is a two piece band with a bigger sound than alot of much larger bands can manage.
I saw them live sometime back in that decade known as the 90's somewhere in the city and I remember being more impressed by them then any of the other bands I saw that night.
Also, you should reference "Bound for the Floor" which is a track you might remember, I do believe it got some radio play.

Exclusive - Jeffrey Tambor says ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Movie is a Go!

Exclusive - Jeffrey Tambor says ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Movie is a Go!

Posted using ShareThis

Finally. If Sex in the City can already be in talks for a second go-round, it's about time AD gets it's shot. It was one the funniest, cleverst shows around (pity how many cancelled shows one can say that about). If you're not familiar with the show I recommend getting your hands on all the seasons at once, bunkering down and being prepared to ask yourself the age old question: "Why can't good shows ever last, except in the hearts of the cult followings they so oft inspire?"
Click the above link to see the Jeffery Tambor interview that has everyone (re: aforementioned cult following, and/or people with blogs and too much time) buzzing!

Cookout-Bo Burnham

Last night I had the privelege of seeing Bo Burnham at the NYC comedy festival. He's a you tube superstar, only 18 yrs old and so so very funny and talented.

Official Repo! Genetic Opera trailer (2008)

So, I stumbled upon this little gem of a trailer and cannot wait for whenever "soon" is for it's release. And, not only because Giles is the repo man either, but that's definetly a plus.

NYC Zombie Crawl 2008

Of course I heard about this zombie crawl after the fact (always a day late and a dollar short) but how much fun does being un-dead for the day look huh? Apparantly these zombie crawls take place all over the world and I'm making it my mission to be in on the next one!